3D Telemedicine during Covid: Cohort Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
3D Telemedicine during Covid: Cohort Study
IRAS ID
286127
Contact name
Steven Lo
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Clinical Research and Development Central Office
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
It is critical to establish an effective form of telemedicine during the Covid 19 pandemic, that will allow safe social distancing of clinicians and patients. We serve as the regional plastic, burns and reconstructive centre for West of Scotland, population 3 million. All face to face clinics have been cancelled and converted to telephone/telemedicine only consultations. We will establish both 2D and 3D telemedicine as normal patient follow up practice during this period.
We therefore aim to implement a 3D telemedicine system to facilitate patient follow up and remote physiotherapy, that will act as if the patient is physically ‘present’ in the room. Physiotherapy is crucial to patient outcomes after burns contractures, hand trauma and cancer reconstruction. The 3D telemedicine system will be built by our industrial partner, with CE marked equipment, specifically to help during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 5
REC reference
20/WS/0148
Date of REC Opinion
18 Dec 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion